TY - JOUR
AU - Lang, Uwe Michael
AB -  3 volumes , pp. 384, 320, 320 , Liverpool , Liverpool University Press , 2005 , £80 . In the history of the Church, Ecumenical Councils have usually been followed by an intense period of reflection and controversy. The reception of conciliar decrees has often been wrought with theological, canonical and political difficulties. Basil of Caesarea left a particularly vivid description of the aftermath of Nicaea, comparing the situation with a naval battle fought in storm and darkness: ‘The raucous shouting of those who through disagreement rise up against one another, the incomprehensible chatter, the confused din of uninterrupted clamouring, has now filled almost the whole of the Church, falsifying through excess or failure the right doctrine of the faith’ ( De Spiritu Sancto 30, 77). This passage was quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his important discourse to the members of the Roman Curia on 22 nd December 2005, when he addressed the vexed question of the proper hermeneutic to be applied in the implementation of the latest Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, Vatican II. The Council of Chalcedon was assembled at the wish of the Emperor Marcian in the year 451 to settle Christological issues 
TI - The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Translated Texts for Historians, 45) . Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Price and Michael Gaddis
JF - The Heythrop Journal
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2007.00325_8.x
DA - 2007-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-acts-of-the-council-of-chalcedon-translated-texts-for-historians-SJ8PzASpls
SP - 470
VL - 48
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -